You should read following http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1892324/why-program-functionally-in-python http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1892324/why-program-

You should read following http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1892324/why-program-functionally-in-python http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1892324/why-program-funct... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1017621/why-isnt-python-very-good-for-functional-programming http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1017621/why-isnt-python-v... I still think if you are interested in learning functional programming choose another language.